Lignite gasification 
increases costs of 
coal-to-liquids

Low-grade coals can be gasified to produce synthesis gas (syngas) but gasification contributes about 40% to 50% of the overall costs of a synthetic fuels (synfuels) plant, says Chinese and South African joint venture coal-to-liquids (CTL) company...

Ningxia CTL plant proposal to be considered in last quarter of 2010

Engineering consultancy Chinese International Engineering Consultative Company’s recommendations on the proposed coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant to be built in the Ningxia Hui Autonomus region is expected to go before the Chinese National Energy...

Sasol decelerates CTL project pending carbon capture, refinery clarity

Sasol CEO Pat Davies on its coal-to-liquids projects in China and South Africa, and its gas-to-liquids plan for Uzbekistan.

CTL company develops deep gas purification process technology

Coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology company Clean Coal Technology (CCT) has been awarded with the exclusive worldwide commercialisation right of a newly developed technology for the deep gas purification process of synthesis gas (syngas), which can...

CTL plant possible in 
SA’s Waterberg region

Sekoko Energy, part of black-owned mining and energy company Sekoko Resources, is investigating the possibility of developing a coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in the Waterberg region.

Coal-miner Sasol intends to be world leader 
in carbon capture, storage – CEO

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Coal-miner Sasol fully intended to be a world leader in carbon capture and storage (CSS) technology, Sasol CEO Pat Davies said on Monday.

Coal-miner Sasol intends to be world leader in carbon capture, storage – CEO

Coal-miner Sasol fully intended to be a world leader in carbon capture and storage (CSS) technology, Sasol CEO Pat Davies said on Monday. Davies said that Sasol, the world's only commercial coal-to-liquids (CTL) company, saw CSS as one of the...

Sasol conpletes basic designs for Secunda underground coal gasification demo plant

Coal-to-liquids (CTL) giant Sasol underground coal gasification (UCG) business manager Johan Brand says that the company has completed basic engineering designs for its demonstration scale UCG plant and envisages the implementation of the...

Sekoko plans CTL plant, power station in Waterberg

Sekoko Energy, part of the black-owned mining and energy company Sekoko Resources, was investigating the possibility of developing a coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in the Waterberg region, its chairperson said on Tuesday. Sekoko Energy has more than...

R6bn earmarked for new Thubelisha, Impumulelo coal operations

More than R6-billion is earmarked for two new coal-mines in Secunda, Sasol Limited says in a report to analysts. The two new names on the already long list of Sasol Mining collieries are Thubelisha, formerly referred to as Rooipoort, and...

Sasol chooses Limpopo coal for Mafutha CTL project

Transport fuel-from-coal manufacturer Sasol had selected a coalfield in the western part of South Africa’s Limpopo province as part of its prefeasibility study into the proposed Mafutha coal-to-liquids (CIL) project, Sasol executive director...

Sasol considers Free State, Waterberg sites for new coal-to-liquids plant

JSE-listed Sasol was evaluating coal sites in the Free State and Waterberg, in Limpopo, to possibly build a greenfields coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant, executive director Benny Mokaba said.